As well as covering the media gaffes during the reporting of Thatcher’s death, there were various gentle jibes about the presence on the show of former Labour MP and Mayor of London Ken Livingstone – an unapologetic left-winger who had multiple run-ins with the Conservative right during the height of Thatcherism in the 1980s.

‘With the coverage given to honouring Mrs Thatcher this week, the BBC were worried about accusations of bias – which is why you were invited on I think Ken,’ Hislop smiled.

Later in the show, fellow panel regular Paul Merton got in a gentle dig at the former Tory leader’s expense after Blessed called Hislop ‘a goldmine of information’.

Merton replied: ‘If Ian was a mine of information, Margaret Thatcher would have closed him down years ago.’

Oh, and there was also a very funny clip of George Osborne attempting to skip – which had nothing to do with anything above.